Ezeibe Becomes Registered Insurance Brokers’ Council’s New President

The managing director/CEO, Crystal Trust Insurance Brokers Limited, Ekeoma Ezeibe, is acceptable to go the adjacent president of the Nigeria Council of Registered Insurance Brokers (NCRIB), becoming the 3rd pistillate president of the assembly successful its 63 years.

Ezeibe, a consummate security lawyer and distinguished security broker, volition beryllium sworn successful this Friday successful Victoria Island, Lagos.

Ezeibe, who had antecedently held liable positions connected the Council’s governing board, including vice president and lawman president, would bring her affluent cognition of security law, integrity, and coagulated societal superior to carnivore successful further consolidating the Council’s presumption successful the beforehand enactment of the professions successful Nigeria.

She would besides beryllium cresting connected her wide manufacture acceptance and contributions to each constituent arms, wherever she had been adding important worth successful past years.

Born a princess, Ekeoma attended Holy Rosary Secondary School, Umuahia, Abia State, and Our Lady of Mount Carmel College, Emekuku, Owerri, Imo State, wherever she obtained her West African School Certificate. She past went connected to the aged Imo State University, present Abia State University, 43 years ago, wherever she studied Law.

She obtained her Bachelor of Laws (LL.B) grade 39 years agone and proceeded to the Nigerian Law School, Lagos, wherever she obtained her Barrister astatine Law (B.L) and was called to the Nigerian Bar 38 years ago. She obtained her Master of Laws (LL.M) grade from the University of Lagos.Ekeoma Ezeibe started her security vocation with the Legal Department of the Nigeria Reinsurance Corporation (Nigeria Re) during her National Youth Service Corps successful 1987/1988. She was retained successful Nigeria Re aft her Youth Service nether the distinguished Professor Joe Irukwu , SAN who made a batch of interaction successful her young life, whilst impervious speechmaking astir of his published works successful insurance. This marked the opening of a blossoming vocation successful security for her.

In 1991, she started moving arsenic Company Secretary/Legal Adviser and Head of the Claims Department successful Liberty Assurance Company Limited earlier moving connected to Industrial & General Insurance Company Limited successful 1992 arsenic its pioneer institution secretary/legal adviser. She co-founded, with her husband, Crystal Trust Insurance Brokers Limited and became its managing director/CEO, a presumption she occupies to this day.

Ekeoma Ezeibe obtained her security nonrecreational qualifications: Associate of the Chartered Insurance Institute (ACII) from the Chartered Insurance Institute, London with Distinctions successful Claims Practice and Advances successful Strategic Risk Management, Associate of the Chartered Insurance Institute of Nigeria (AIIN) and a Fellow, Council of Registered Insurance Brokers (FCIB).

Over the years, she has fixed much than 40 Pro Bono lectures connected divers topics successful law, regulation, compliance and security connected not conscionable the level of the Nigerian Council of Registered Insurance Brokers (NCRIB) but besides those of the Insurance Industry Consultative Council (IICC), Chartered Insurance Institute of Nigeria (CIIN), College of Insurance & Financial Management (CIFM), Institute of Loss Adjusters of Nigeria (ILAN), African Insurance Brokers Association (AIBA), Africa Insurance Women Association (AIWA) and different non-industry platforms.

Ekeoma’s power spans each nonrecreational bodies successful the industry, namely the National Insurance Commission (NAICOM), the Chartered Insurance Institute of Nigeria (CIIN), the Nigerian Insurers Association (NIA), and the Professional Insurance Ladies Association (PILA).

At the continental level and astatine the African Insurance Brokers’ Association (AIBA), she served arsenic Secretary from 2022 to 2024, Treasurer from 2024 to 2025, and currently, its Vice Chairman, wherever she made past arsenic the archetypal pistillate to inhabit this position.

She was a subordinate of the Constitution Drafting Committee that established the Africa Insurance Women Association (AIWA), of which she is simply a member, and arsenic conducted the passing of the solution that legally acceptable up the body, including having the privilege to curse successful its archetypal President, the unforgettable Lady Margaret Nkechi Moore, of blessed memory, connected 31 May 2023 successful Algiers, Algeria.